How much revenue did Swords and Sandals Medieval make?

$4k–$10k after Steam's roughly 30% cut, derived from the copies estimate and its price.

How many copies did Swords and Sandals Medieval sell?

Q: How many copies did Swords and Sandals Medieval sell?

2k to 3k copies, based on its 54 Steam reviews. This is a labeled estimate from the review count, not exact sales.

Estimated copies sold: ≈ 2k–3k; $4k–$10k after Steam's cut $6k–$15k before the cut; from 54 reviews (Mostly Positive)

A labeled estimate from the public review count (adjusted for release year), not exact sales. Owner data cross-checked with SteamSpy.

Does this actually work?

We left Swords and Sandals Medieval out and predicted the genre from its 8 similar games. Every figure here, including Swords and Sandals Medieval's, is estimated from Steam reviews, not self-reported sales.

Copies, estimated from reviews

typical (middle half) 228–9k

best case 36k (Swords and Sandals Immortals)

Games like Swords and Sandals Medieval

The middle of these games

≈ 228–9k copies

≈ $572–$42k after Steam's cut

from ~46 reviews

Only the top fifth of 2019’s Steam releases earned about $34k gross, so plan for that or less.

1 of your 8 similar games is a hit.

Best case: Swords and Sandals Immortals at ≈ 28k–45k copies, ≈ $92k–$246k after Steam's cut.

What it took to get here

About half the games that made it here had over 8 reviews in their first month; the spread ran 2 to 693.

Under about 100 in month one, almost nothing recovers.

The genre you'd be entering

Your set: Your set clusters on Turn-Based Combat (7 of 8) and Strategy RPG (4 of 8).
The winners: Winners here lead with Rogue-like + Turn-Based Combat, priced around $12.
The era: The games you compared span 2017 to 2024, and 1 of your 8 shipped in the last two years.

How these numbers were worked out

A hit here: 1,000+ reviews, roughly $150k+ before Steam's cut (a standard indie benchmark).

Copies come from each game's reviews times a sales-per-review rate that falls with release age, from about 31 for the most recent game here to about 43 for the oldest, then widened into a range; revenue rides on that estimate times price. Source: GameDiscoverCo (2020) and VG Insights (2021).

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